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What can we really understand about life if we don't taste its flavor through the most universal pleasure there is, common to men of all ages, conditions and origins: the art of eating well?
We are quick to believe that cooking, with its refinements, is a minor, even futile, discipline.
That it is a matter of Epicureans, who indulge in their inclination while enlightened minds rise otherwise.
Anyone who thinks this way has the right to think so, affirms Jean-Robert Pitte,
“provided they have read Brillat-Savarin”.
The question remains open, the bet is on.
To make the reader want to discover the author of The
Physiology of Taste,
the current president of the Geographical Society, who also chairs the French Mission...
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